Word: flavors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more limited field to which these weekly lines are dedicated within the last few years it has been wondered if perhaps such a thing as a great America jazz novel might be forthcoming one of these days--a book which combined some stylistic artistry with the distinctive spirit and flavor of a jazz performance. Two or three novels with such a background have appeared, but none transcends the faint-praise-damning level of competency. So far all such novels have concentrated on merely the life of the musician somewhat to the exclusion of the music which makes that life what...
...Singapore for relay to Batavia went 200 grams vitamin BI (value: $1,340), shipping documents, samples of wire brushes, samples of butter flavor, glow lamps, snap-fastener samples...
Mustard and ice cream are, in their proper settings, palatable items. Served together as a sundae, without the loss of individual flavor, they would soon convince the eater that each was better off without the other. The same is true of Jack Benny as "Charley's Aunt." Not that both the picture and Benny aren't screamingly funny--just that the picture would have been funnier with Jack Benny in something else and the same might be said of the Waukegan romeo...
...children made a game of Goebbels' informing Hitler afeout the sinking of the French ships at Oran. Child Hitler: "Bring me my carpet that I may bite it." Child Goebbels: "Which flavor, mein Führer?" Child Hitler: "Lemon, Joe. And I'll have a nibble at the raspberry...
...appeal for your potent help in rescuing a good word. When by supercharging and higher compression, internal combustion engines began to be "suped up," the phrase was born, of good and healthy stock, and has a good flavor...